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Formspring (formerly known by its full URL formspring.me) is an interest-based social Q&A; website, launched in November 2009, and created to allow users to relate their ideas and opinions on any topic. The site allows its users to set up a profile page, follow other users and ask questions. The questions and their given responses are then published on the user's profile page. It is operated by Formspring.me, Inc., a company headquartered in San Francisco.

Formspring is set up as a forum. Users can ask questions anonymously or they can be visibly sent from another Formspring account, depending upon the asker's preference. Users can choose to disallow anonymous questions and have the ability to block selected people from asking further questions.

Formspring was launched in Indianapolis in November 2009 by the founder of online form builder Formstack, Ade Olonoh, as a side-project. He noticed that most of their users were using the service to create "ask me anything" forms and decided...

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